SELECTED FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS
2024 This is Short / European Short Film Network - Routines
2023 Berlinale Forum Special: Fiktionsbescheinigung - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Goethe-Institut NYC, Artist Talk & Screening - Short Films of Eren Aksu
2021 un/mute Gallery & Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC - STILL Group Exhibition, carousel with 62 slides and printed text (with poet Sheila Maldonado)
Apartment Project Berlin, Chromatic Wednesdays - Artist Talk & Screening
Istanbul Modern Museum: FUTURE IS SHORT - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Kyiv Short Film Festival - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Message To Man Int. Film Festival, St. Petersburg - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Achtung Berlin Film Festival - Best Short Film Award - Other Than That, I’m Fine
2020 Int. Oberhausen Short Film Festival - 3sat Promotional Award - Other Than That, I’m Fine
PASO Fest for Film & Digital Media: Goethe-Institut Special, Ankara - Other Than That, I’m Fine
Being Human Festival, UK, Kahvehane Sessions Artist Talk & Screening - Other Than That, I’m Fine
2019 AFSAD Short Film Festival, Goethe-Institut Ankara Special Screening - Routines
2018 Int. Oberhausen Short Film Festival - Routines
Exground Film Festival, Wiesbaden - Routines
2017 Les Rencontres Internationales (Video Library Selection) - Cosmorama
Akbank Short Film Festival, Istanbul - Cosmorama
Int. Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg - Cosmorama
Int. Dresden Short Film Festival - Cosmorama
2016 Int. Oberhausen Short Film Festival - Cosmorama
Sarajevo Film Festival - Cosmorama
Solothurn Film Festival - Cosmorama
Lisbon Architecture Film Festival - Cosmorama
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Berlin, Research Stipend in the Visual Arts Recipient
2021 Achtung Berlin Film Festival - Best Short Film Award
un/mute 10002, Undercurrent NYC / Goethe-Institut NYC - Online Artist Residency
2020 Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen - 3sat Promotional Award
2018 Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo Talents Programme
JURIES
2023 Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, German Short Film Competition
Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Short & Medium Length Film Competitions
2021 Interfilm Short Film Festival, German Short Film Competition
EDUCATION
2018-2019 Arts & Media (M.A.) - Universität der Künste Berlin
2013-2018 Arts & Media (B.A.) - Universität der Künste Berlin
2009-2013 Film & TV (B.A.) - Istanbul Bilgi University